The major internal organs and external body structures
take on identifiable shapes. The brain and spinal cord
can be identified. Arms and legs sprout and take shape.
Fingers and toes are discernible. Hair begins to appear.

An embryo,irregularly from Greek: ἔμβρυον, means “that which grows,” from en- “in” + bryein, “to swell, be full”. It is a multicellular
diploid eukaryote in its earliest stage of development, from the time of first cell division until birth, hatching, or germination. In humans,
it is called an embryo until about eight weeks after fertilization and from then it is instead called a foetus. The development of the
embryo is called embryogenesis.

Zygote Stage (0 to 5 days)

Fertilization occurs when a sperm penetrates an egg, usually in one of the Fallopian tubes. Half of the father’s DNA combines with half
of the mother’s DNA to form a single, complete set of human genetic information. Regardless, upon forming, a zygote immediately

Fertilisation

Oocyte

The foetus has all of the body parts that an adult has.
The muscles cause the body parts to move in coordinated ways, and the organ systems begin to function. By
14 weeks old, the sex of the fetus can be identified in an
ultrasound scan. By 24 weeks, the foetus has a chance
of surviving outside of the womb if a premature birth occurs.

begins to divide and grow into a ball of cells called a blastocyst.

Blastocyst Stage (5 to 10 days)

About one week after fertilization, a ball of several hundred cells implants
itself in the lining of the mother’s uterus.
The blastocyst is only one layer of cells thick in all but one section, where
it’s about four cells thick. The thin layer becomes the placenta while the
thick section of the blastocyst will become the embryo itself.
When a section of the blastocyst begins to float in the fluid of the amniotic
sack, the embryo stage has begun.

1 day

Zygote

Foetus
4 cell

Foetal Stage (8 to 37 weeks)

8 cell

Morula

Blastocyst

Embryo

21-23 days

28-32 days

35-38 days

42-44days

50-60 days

THE MOON EVOLUTION
From epic asteroid bombardment and lava flow to the
formation of craters, the Moon has a rich and violent history. Nature has taught me, the only constant is the change.

"Evolution of the Moon" explains why the moon did
not always look like it does now. The moon likely
started as a giant ball of magma formed from the
remains of a collision by a Mars sized object with the
Earth about four and a half billion years ago. After
the magma cooled, the moon's crust formed. Then
between 4.5 and 4.3 billion years ago, a giant object hit near the moon's South Pole, forming the South
Pole-Aitken Basin.This marked the beginning of collisions that would cause large scale changes to the
moon's surface, such as the formation of large basins.

Because the moon had not entirely cooled at the inside, magma began to seep through cracks
caused by impacts. Around one billion years ago, it’s thought that volcanic activity ended on the
near side of the moon as the last of the large impacts made their mark on the surface. The moon
continued to be battered by smaller impacts such as the formtion of craters. So, while the moon today may seem to be an unchanging world, its appearance is the result of billions of years of violent
activity.
The pictures also show the changes of moon’s phase from
the crescent to the full moon. The synodic cycle repeats on
average 29.53 days. Therefore the timing of the Moon’s phases
shift by an average of almost one day for each successvie
month.

QUARTER MOON

FULL MOON

GIBBOUS MOON

LUNAR CRATER TSIOLKOVSKY

Complex central peak
Smooth floor of lava
Rim of crater

Ejecta
CRESCENT MOON

Crater diameter=
125miles (185 km)

Caterpillar in the cocoon

BUTTERFLY EMERGENCE

A caterpillar with a spiral shape,
which is similar to the snail shell.

A day before
Cocoon becomes
translucent and the
wingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pattern can
be seen
outside.

The caterpillar, or what is more scientifically termed a
larva, stuffs itself with leaves, growing plumper and longer
through a series of molts in which it sheds its skin. One
day, the caterpillar stops eating, hangs upside down from
a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon or molts into
a shiny chrysalis. Within its protective casing, the caterpillar radically transforms its body, eventually emerging as a
butterfly or moth.
The cocoon or chrysalis stage can last anywhere from 2
weeks to 40 days.
This idea was inspired by the glowing of firefly. A lantern
with a geometrical shape of a butterfly
would be attractive when it glows. When the butterfly is
emerging from its cocoon, the glowing
lantern amazingly brings out the message of a new born in the world of nature.

ANALYTICAL DRAWING

Butterfly emerged from the cocoon

One day period
The butterfly
emerges with a
small, wrinkled
and wet wings.

It begins to experiment
with its drying
wings by
moving them up
and down.

Once the wings dried,
the butterfly flaps its
wings and take flight for
the first time.

Scales

Butterflies are characterized by their scale-covered wings. The coloration of butterfly wings is created by minute scales. These scales are pigmented with melanins that give them blacks and browns,
but blues, greens, reds and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but the microstructure
of the scales. This structural coloration is the result of coherent scattering of light by the photonic
crystal nature of the scales.
These patterns of the butterfly’s wing can be an inspiration for my model’s panelling. From different
scales, different geometrical shapes are discovered.

PROPOSAL 1
PRECEDENTS
(2) Embryo Nightclub, Bucharest, Romania

(1) Wearable Belt
Now, men can have a chance to experience what a pregnant
woman feels with the creation of this wearable belt design!
The red warning light flashes in the capsule with a modeled fetus to
discourage touching. In touch mode, a series of interactions are
possible.

The designs of the nightclub
include various stages of
development of an embryo at every
corner of the club.The colour used brings
out the atmosphere of the human

Closeup of the scales

internal parts.
PLUS, the simple polygons are based on the analogies of
sperms, vagina and etc.

Electron
microscopic
images

The repetition of the shape on the wall shows the example of
the nature pattern formation as discussed in the first reading
by Ball, which is the autocatalytic process.

A patch of wing

Magnification

Approx. ×50

Scales close up
Approx. ×200

A single scale
×1000

Microstructure of a scale
×5000

Dont touch me!

You can touch me now ^.^

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

FIRST ROUGH DESIGN

(2)Zygote undergoes cell division
(1) When the sperm hits the egg
(3) Formation of an Embryo

Use more LEDs at the head part of the embryo so that it
shines brighter. As brain is the main control of a life.

This belt illustrates the whole process of how an
embryo is developed from a single cell-zygote. It
begins with the moment when the sperm breaks
the ovary wall and combines with the egg to form
zygote. Later on, it reaches the cell division stage
and this described by the pear-like-shape. Before
it grows into an embryo shape with a head and
body, there are two spheres which indicates the
two fully divided cells.

The illustration of how it looks like.

Design: “It’s Everyone’s Baby”

Clay model
The belt is getting thinner at the back to show the curve shape of the body.

Front view

Side view

PROPOSAL 2

FIRST ROUGH DESIGN

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

PRECEDENTS
(1) Full Moon Bay and the Crescent and
Caspian Plus

(2) Half Moon Bay, an Art Piece.

Figured maple, jarrah,
wenge, glass crystal
It is an art piece for sell by the
Alan Carter Studio.
It’s using the concept of half
moon as its main idea.

With the ambitions of civil engineers flying high and
high, Korean Heerim Architects has tried to reinvent
the Moon Shape Skyscraper with their two projects
in central Asian republic of Azerbaijan. They have
proposed a skyscraper to be built in Baku, capital of
Azerbaijan with a view on the Caspian sea. The first
picture is the Full Moon Bay, while the second picture is
the Crescent and Caspian Plus.

I want to involve both moon revolution and
moon’s phase in my design. Thus, for the
crescent moon, I will use simple panelling with
cardboard. Beginning from the quarter moon,
I will make some small holes to let the light
emerged from the internal space, just like the
particles bombardment on the surface of the
Moon. Secondly, I will use black cardboard
to make the lava fluid shape. Thus, that part
would be darker when lights on. Lastly, while
fabricating the surface of the full moon, there
will be certain parts which slightly concave
inwardly, these symbolise the moon craters.

I further develop the idea by including
both the Earth orbit and Moon orbit axes,
which the angle between the ecliptic and
the lunar equator is always 1.543°. Instead
of putting the lantern at the right shoulder,
I change it to the left side, so that the full
moon will lay on the heart. There will be the
largest crater at the South pole, which is the
Aitken Basin.
Design: “Moon in the Heart”

EXPERIMENT ABOUT THE ROTATION OF MOON AND HOW THE MOON’S PHASES ARE FORMED
I conducted an experiment to
see how the positions between
the Sun, the Earth and the Moon
will relate to the formation of
moon’s phase. The red ball represents the Earth, while the clay
ball represents the Moon. The
light ray is where the sunlight is.

PROPOSAL 3
PRECEDENTS
(1)Yellow Tree House

The New Moon Phase is when
the Moon locates in between the
Sun and the Earth in a straight
line. Otherwise, it forms a full
moon when the Earth is in between the Sun and the Moon
For the Quarter Moon and the
Crescent Moon, three of them
are not alighed in a straight line.

It’s inspired through many forms found in nature -the chrysalis/cocoon protecting the
emerging butterfly/moth, perhaps an onion/garlic clove form hung out to dry. It is also
seen as a lantern, a beacon at night that simply glows yet during the day it might be a
semi camouflaged growth, or a tree fort that provides an outlook and that offers refuge.
The diagram at the right is the plan view of the design.
The plan form also has loose similarities to a sea shell with the open ends spiralling to the centre, where the tree locates.
This plan view sketch had been taught in the reading by Yee-The Conventional Orthographic Terminology.

FIRST ROUGH DESIGN

The front view

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

Panelling Perspective View

The back view

The cocoon shape
The light comes out from
the cocoon, a metaphor of
welcoming the new born.
The butterfly’s wings
emerge from the cocoon.

Cocoon shape lantern

Panellling Front View

The model’s head emerged from the lantern, just like the butterfly
emerges from the cocoon. Instead of hanging downwards, my design
is in an upward direction. The light comes out from the internal, just like
the previous idea, welcoming the new life.
Design : “ The Rise of Cocoon”

PROPOSAL CHOSEN-FINAL

FINAL MODEL 1:5

I attempted to overlap the four moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
phases, from the Crescent to the Quarter to
the Gibbous and Lastly Full Moon.
The overlapping of four of them forms 6
separated parts. I was numbering them in a
sequence starting from the Crescent to the
Full Moon.
My design will surround the shoulder from left
to the right, like the Moon orbitting the Earth. I
will still include the moon evolution in my final
Part
design. As this will be potential for my future Part of the
Part of the
exploration on fabrication.
Full Moon (6), of the
Quarter Moon
the surface Gibbous
(4), particles
Moon
has many
bombard(5), there
craters.
ment occurs
is lava
on it.
on it.

Right side view

Parts of the Crescent
Moon (1, 2, & 3), which
their surfaces will be
only smooth.

Left side view

ANALYSIS OF READINGS/LECTURES
The lectures and readings in this subject are useful in such a way
to asist me in critical thinking. Moreover, they did help me to explore deeper in the geometrical studies as well as some challenging softwares, such as Rhino and Indesign. The reading by Yee and
Ching set a fundamental for my future architecture studies. In those
readings, I learned the skill to draw the perspective view, plan view,
section and etc. Not only that, the learning of analytical drawing is
definitely useful for me to further develope the structure of the lantern, so that can make it more abstract and simple.

REFLECTIONS
We have been taught to explore the natural processes as a starter of our porject of the lantern design.
My first instinct is to find something that can perform well when associate with the light. Hence, I chose the
development of an embryo from a cell, the moon evolution as well as the butterfly emerging process. The
reasons are these processes bring a message of new life, a new hope to the world.
I applied the knowledge from the reading about how to form repeating patterns and also how to sketch
an analytical drawing while exploring my idea. I made some simplicities of geometrical shapes on my
design, such as the first design of the concept of butterfly emerging through the analytical drawing.

The relationship between numbers and arts is incredibly interesting!
It was the best lecture as I never know all the numbers and equations can form some special patterns, even some of the natural elements on the Earth, such as the pineapple.

Later on, my tutor suggested me to focus on the idea of the development an embryo. It seems to be
unique with my designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose, which I want to make it a belt, so that even a man also can have a
chance to experience the feeling of carrying a baby. However, she recommended to choose the proposal of the moon evolution after I showed her my new idea of the Moon. This is because the moon surface is potential for me to apply variety of fabrication on my model. I pretty agree with my tutorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion.
As this allows me to be able to explore more on Rhino for the coming modules.

After attended all the lectures and flipped through all the readings, I
am able to practise them in my design work for the lantern. I realised
that starting to create something from nature is such a powerful and
limitless idea. I also learned how to simplify my idea with the use of
different geometries instead of what it exactly looks like

For my further development of the moon, I used the overlapping method in order to find out some simple
geometries as my design, rather than simply put the moon shape onto my design. This gives more abstract
to the viewers.